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• ...that the anticancer agent Salinosporamide A (skeletal formula pictured), which recently entered clinical trials, is produced by marine sediment-dwelling bacteria?
• ...that sports agent David Falk represented Michael Jordan for the whole of the player's career?
• ...that Joseph Bowman was the only American officer killed during George Rogers Clark's campaign to capture the Illinois Country in the American Revolutionary War?
• ...that in 1985, Texas Instruments became the first multinational to set up base in Bangalore?
• ..that E.E. Roberts' Oak Park, Illinois architecture firm rivaled the studio of fellow architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
• ...that a man was crushed to death during the construction of the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol?
• ...that Don White was the first-ever coach of the England national rugby union team?
  

• The centre-right Union for a Popular Movement, party of French President Nicolas Sarkozy (pictured), retains a majority in the National Assembly despite losses in the legislative elections.
• Argentine golfer Angel Cabrera wins the 2007 U.S. Open Championship.
• Tupua Tamasese Tupuola Tufuga Efi is elected as the new O le Ao o le Malo (Head of State) of Samoa.
• The San Antonio Spurs defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers, four games to none, to win the 2007 National Basketball Association Finals.
• Hamas takes control of the Gaza Strip, causing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the current unity government and declare a state of emergency.
• Shimon Peres is elected President of Israel after both of his opponents withdraw before the second round of voting.

June 20: World Refugee Day; Flag Day in Argentina (since 1938); West Virginia Day in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

• 451 - The Battle of Chalons against Attila the Hun is the last major battle of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1756 - A garrison of the British army in India was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
• 1789 - 577 deputies of the French National Assembly took the Tennis Court Oath, starting the French Revolution.
• 1837 - Queen Victoria (pictured) succeeded to the British throne.
• 1973 - Snipers fired into a crowd of Peronists near the Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing at least 13 people and injuring 365 others.

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